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Posted on 09/01/2014 9:14:04 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
So blatant is this attempt in the latest round of TV ads that the Washington Post teased Rove with a headline that taunted him as a "bleeding heart liberal." Reporter/blogger Greg Sargent said in the story that the two ad campaigns "show Republicans once again hitting Dems from the left on entitlements." Salon ridiculed the North Carolina ad as the "dumbest of the season" so far, and it was almost identical to one run in Arkansas a few weeks ago.
The Post and Salon are often wrong in their assessment of Republican strategies, but in this instance, they are right on the money. In the recent spots for both the Arkansas and North Carolina markets, the emphasis is on Social Security and plays on the fears that Pryor and Hagan both support raising the eligibility age for benefits. When you consider that incrementally and gradually raising the benefit age is a common sense conservative idea -- and that Democrats routinely fear monger off of this very issue -- this is a clear case of Rove trying to out-liberal the Democrat candidates and not just settling for the normal "Democrat lite" campaign the GOP establishment prefers.
While this shameless pandering is bad enough on its on, it is simply incomprehensible given the current mood of the country to reject big government liberalism and all things Obama. It is also the most cynical type of niche politics.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
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Ping!
Rove token opposition, has always been on the side of the destruction of the US. Only now with the divide so wide, his actions have become more obvious.
Thanks for posting at FR! Was top Breitbart.com and BigGovernment.com feature part of Saturday and early Sunday.
How the Hell do we stop ROVE and the rest of his scum? Isn’t there some violation that we can nail him on and put him away for the rest of out lives?
Interesting insights:
“[Rove] has never directed a campaign with a compelling big picture, all encompassing message. In the direct mail world, you find one hot button and run a sale on that item in that zip code. In politics, it means you think of every voter as a single issue voter, and you try and niche your way to 271 electoral votes or 51 Senate seats with a little abortion over here and some social security over there — and maybe some trade protectionism some other place. When you run a television campaign the way you run a direct mail message, you actually damage your party’s ability to put together a coherent message.
“Another tell is Rove’s reliance on focus group data, which was certainly true in his failed 2012 efforts. Focus groups by their very definition — they last a couple hours — cannot possibly judge the effectiveness of a campaign message over a period of weeks or months. And yet, this is precisely what Rove and Frank Luntz and Haley Barbour rely on them to do.”
Found the ads in question:
http://youtu.be/N4WHfhL_6bQ?list=UUZtZuLHzPSeodii1DhtQzWA
The one from Arkansas is close to matching the description in the article, but not the one from NC - SS issue is one of a ...and don’t see how the ads could be described as “almost identical”.
It looks like this article is written about the liberal publications’ commentary on the ads vs. having actually seen the ads themselves...but then the next line says that they should be talking about Obamacare, which not only appears in both ads, but is also mentioned in the articles - one of them calling them the GOP’s “dishonest attacks” on Obamacare.
“...issue is one of a number mentioned in the ad”
My inlaws were lifelong democrats until Reagan, and they never went back. There are people out there that can be converted. Not by promising them a new government program! but by creating an environment where the economy can grow and the middle class can thrive again.
The Crossroads GPS ads are by and large very poorly produced since 2012...in 2010 they were more in line with what you would see from the GOP campaign committees and candidates, now they are even more generic than campaign ads can typically be...not sure how to describe it but by comparison you just watch an ad and you can just tell there’s nothing there. That NC ad jumps from one topic to another and you can’t hardly tell what point they are trying to get across. The AR ad says that Pryor wants to “overhaul Social Security” and “tell Pryor we need our benefits”...what?
In that case, what’s teh point of electing Republicans?
Arkansas
Several months ago, ads were running that accused Cotton of wanting to raise the Social Security/Medicare ages.
More recently, ads have been runing that accuse Pryor of wanting to raise the Social Security/Medicare ages.
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Both sides have run ads that are strong on allegations and weak on facts.
Rove should know better. The identity politics of pandering won't work. We can't out democrat the Democrats nor is it a desirable thing to do if we could.
My inlaws were lifelong democrats until Reagan, and they never went back. There are people out there that can be converted. Not by promising them a new government program! but by creating an environment where the economy can grow and the middle class can thrive again.
Exactly. That's how we will win elections.
Are the ads accurate descriptions of what the Demon Rats want to do?
If so, then let the ads run without griping.
Karl please campaign in North Korea... you are a micron...
He and his PAC must be destroyed.
Wildcat I think your point about the NC ad is irrelevant. The ad does run to the left of the Democrats on Social Security. Yes, it’s a jumbled ad that jumps around, but for purposes here that’s not a criticism I am going to worry about.
As for Obama Care, it is fatuous to say that Crossroads is running an effective campaign against Obama Care. And their attacks on Obama Care are again from the left. I also think you’re expecting a 600 word article to cover every single nuance in detail. With 3000 words, maybe, but not an article of this length. There is nothing misleading about the headline or the main thrust of the article.
Mark Levin, Breitbart, American Thinker - and numerous other outlets have chosen to feature (the two different) articles I’ve written on these ads.
Thanks
To quote this article: “When you consider that incrementally and gradually raising the benefit age is a common sense conservative idea”
I DISSAGREE, No it is not a common sense conservative idea- what would be a common sense conservative idea is to continue to offer SS (unchanged), but to ALLOW those who are currently working to opt out of their future payroll taxes instead to be directed to personal (private) retirement accounts directed by the individual, not the Federal Government.
Gradually you’d get the government out of SS by attrition (because over time who’d want to stay in a stagnant system that doesn’t give ANY return on investment..)?
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